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We so enjoy watching Taylor and Brendan interact. Brendan is enthralled with his sister and spends lots of time just watching her. Taylor has learned to help baby proof and takes things from him that we don’t let him have. She is learning to share her toys with him and so far she will let him play with anything but her pink shopping cart and her blanket. He laughs a lot on account of her and she thinks she is super cool when she makes him smile. Taylor also thinks that Brendan should be in every room that we are in so if we begin to leave a room, she’ll go grab his arms and start to drag him. “Breeda! Breeda tum!” Translated means, “Brendan come!” When we are about to get in the car, she almost always tries to pick up his car seat and says “It’s heavy.” She’s always afraid we’re going to leave him behind.

Here are some fun pictures of the young ones together.

Taylor popped into Brendan's six month photos

When I told her to sit with him, she sat in his lap. Nice.

Little munchkins.

They are a funny mix and I’m sure they have lots of tricks up their sleeves for us as they grow!

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Man, I am behind on the blog! There’s a lot to catch up on and we’ll start with our (not so) little man. Brendan is six months old; how crazy is that?! We went to his 6 month check-up with the doctor this afternoon. I got to go alone with Brendan this time because Taylor was at home with a high fever. This meant only one baby crying about shots instead of one baby and one sympathetic toddler shedding monster tears. We did miss our little helper but it was fun to be out with just me and my man.

Waiting to see the doctor for his check-up. He has no idea what he's getting in to!

Brendan is a hefty 19 lbs and 27 inches. Surprisingly that is just under the 70th percentile mark. There are some extra hefty babies out there! He has two teeth on the bottom and four that are making their way down on the top. The doctor asked if he ever has dry clothes on due to the constant drooling and spitting up he was exhibiting.

We love sneaking in to watch him sleep. He loves to cuddle his blankets!

At six months, there are obvious differences between Taylor and Brendan. When Taylor was teething, we didn’t know until she gnawed on our fingers and we felt the teeth. With Brendan, he gives us fair warning that they are coming and mourns their appearance for days. Getting immunizations are the same; Taylor cried during the shots and stopped immediately. Brendan cried for a long time and was so sad! Overall, Brendan is a lot more verbal than Taylor at this age.

Poor little prince was brokenhearted after his shots.

Some things I love about Brendan at this stage: the way he watches us when we walk around the house and randomly smiles while watching us, how he grabs our faces and pulls us in for kisses (or maybe to chew on our noses…), how he rocks back and forth on his knees with his bottom in the air. I love his blue eyes and the little curls that are forming. Even though I can’t successfully rock him to sleep very frequently anymore, I love how much he likes to cuddle.

Some things that Wes says is that “he is unbelievably cute because of his expressions and his loud screams of joy. He also likes physical attention, unlike Taylor.” Wes is a great daddy and has a strong connection with his babies.

See that curl that looks like a mohawk? Super cute!

I am shocked that it’s been six months! We love you little bubba!

P.S. I should mention that Wes’s awesome photography skills should not be held accountable for these photos…they are all taken by me which totally explains the lack of quality 🙂

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Wes and I have so much fun listening to Taylor’s vocabulary bloom. I’m a little sad when I hear her perfect words that she used to say wrong…she’s growing up! A-a has become “apple”…o-o has become “open” and more. Here are some of Taylor’s favorites to say:

Where my blanket go? = where’d my blanket go?

Pute! He pute! = Puke! He puked! Or she’ll say “Breda pute!” We hear this with every spit up.

Sfoom = spoon

She loves to eat with a spoon all by herself. Makes for a messy time!

Had it = means she wants to have something or she wants me to have something… for example, when she sneakily picks a booger and hands it to me and says “had it?”

Peenoo bunna = peanut butter

I don wan it = I don’t want it. She says this when she doesn’t want something or doesn’t want you to do something, like take a picture…or shoot a nerf gun near her

She didn't want this picture taken of her with 13 headbands on...

Daddy mowin side = daddy mowing outside. She says this when she hears anyone mowing, whether it’s daddy or a stranger. She loves to go be outside with daddy so much that when he brought her in once she threw a fit saying, “My outside! Mine!” while pointing at herself. It was hard not to laugh at that one!

She would love to go outside all the time. And, as you can tell, her sense of fashion is totally cool 🙂

Tolor peez, yeah = color please. She loves to color and for whatever reason, she has attached a “yeah” at the end of her please. I think she is trying to give us the answer she wants to hear.

Toloring

Udder shoe? = other shoe? When we put on one shoe she anxiously wants the next shoe on too. A couple of weeks ago we got her the cutest little church shoes and she loves them so much! Her toes are “peent” instead of pink.

I love those little legs and toesies!

Some other words/phrases she likes to say are raining, driving, cleaning, baby crying, baby sleeping, laundry, helping, hungry (she still says “hunni, hunni hippo”), apple, eat it, walk (she says this rain or shine because she loves to go on walks), Taylor play. She attaches some noises to words, such as, “slide – weee!” and “trash truck – whoa!” Sometimes her language is still a mystery to us, but it’s so fun to try and decipher it.